Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-22
CITY COUNCIL.
The Fathers Have Lengthy Session
OF Strictly Business Nature-NO
sensational Episodes.
Election of a Meat Inspector-An Alder.
man Denies Promising to Award
Contract for u Bonus.


merits and dement's of proposed meas
ures, and also their legality. The fol-
lowing
ORDINANCES
were read: Providing for the appoint
ment of meat inspector. Adopted.
Granting the Fort Worth City Company
a franchise for the construction Of 8 dunn
my line from North Fort Worth to the
Union depot. Final passage postponed.
To survey and define width, etc, of
street to be called Brown avenue, in
honor of Ex-Governor John G.. Brown, to
extend from the Union depot to the foot
of Main street. Ordinance tabled.
Changing the grade of Jones street.
Referred TO the street and alley com
mittee.
Providing for the payment of water
works claims; read and adopted by sus
pension of the rules.
To raise the Mayors salary to $4,000
per year; Withdrawn and resolution by
Hill to make it $500 per month, which
failed to pass.
Providing for semi-monthly meetings
of the Council; laid over.
RESOLUTIONS.
Authorizing the health committee TO
procure mattresses and beds for hospital.
adopted.
By Barter: That the street and alley
committee and City Engineer lower the
grade on BOsZ street, south of the old
cemetery, before it is graded and gray
elled, and that the street railway COM
pany be required to construct its track,
as per regulations laid down. Adopted.
By Cooper: That the City Engineer be
instructed to drain and fill mole in
Sixteenth street at the Missouri Pacific
Railroad crossing. Adopted.
BY Darter: That H. r. Early, city
secretary, be and is hereby authorized to
| pay to Hogsett & Green the sum of S629
/ in settlement of their claim against the
| city in pursuance of the compromise
/ heretofore made by the Council with
them. Adopted.
| By Hill: That the City Assessor be re-
| quired to give to f. B. Daggett receipt
for taxes paid by him to a former as
SCISSOR. Referred TO the finance commit
! tee.
BY Hill: That water pipe be laid in
The old cemetery. Referred.
By Cooper That the water works
committee be authorized to lay tWO-inCh
! pipe connecting with water main to run
to Daggett school house.
The following claims were allowed +.
| Brown, labor at water works, 81 10; a.
! OCkander, for work on Vine and PresidiO
streets 5000, and on Daggett avenue $50;
B. G. Harris, freight on two cars of coal,
1852 80; T E. Boaz, balance due as sec
rotary of waterworks.
The claim of Il. G. Storrie for S18l3 90,
partial estimate for laying water mains,
was referred TO the finance committee.
! PETITIONS
| of W. B. King ct 81, that Jackson street
| be graded and graveled, and from cit
liens asking the same for Galveston av-
enue, were referred 10 the street. and alley
committee with instructions to advertise
for bids.
OF 4. L. Howard, to be appointed sex
ton OF the colored cemetery without pay
from the city. Granted.
Of j. c.. Mccain, Thomas B. Smith,
John G. Kuhn, A Canto, Charles Blanks,
J. ". Rouse and r. Mstkin, to be sp-
pointed meat inspector. a vote was
taken, and on the fourth ballot Maxim
was elected
OF NJ. T. Kerr, that costs on impo und-
ed cattle be rsmitted. Tabled
OF G. W. Gillespie, that East Fifth
street be graded and erAveled, and that
( lamp post be placed corner Fifth and
Elm. Referred.
OF G. w. Baker ct al. that 81. LOUIS
avenue be graded and graveled
OF Sisters of Mercy, for the remission
of taxes on block on which the convent
stands. Referred.
OF r, G. Maddox and Joseph II. Brown,
for the grading and gravelliDg of Front
street to Jones. Referred.
OF Polk Bros, asking extension of wa
ter facilities from Missouri avenue TO
Ludu street. Referred.
From Hugh 7. Wilson ct al, that W.
B. Hippo be appointed on police force.
Referred
OF Alex Hogg, asking the Council to re-
imburse the school fund in the sum of
$4,000 for money spent in repairing
houses.
REPORTS.
The finance committee reported that
the books and accounts of the secretary
of the wsterworks had been examined
and audited from April, SO to June 20,
'S7, and everything was found correct.
| Appended was the secretary's report for
the same period. 1t showed cash bal
ance on hand of SLIGO 81.
I n 1CpOIl WIS 1Cdu llOul IuC
chairman OF the board of health, setting
! forth the inability of the board to execute
needed sanitary reforms without having
adequate means at It's disposal. The
question of cutting deWn weeds and en-
! forcing cleanliness on property owned by
non-resideDts who have no agents in the
city was among the difficulties men
toned. \ request for several men and
one team 10 carry out hygienic regula-
lions was granted.
AS TO DOODLE.
On g motion to adjourn, Alderman
Reilly asket 10 be heard regarding an arti-
Gle thas appeared in the local press,
wherein some alderman was charged
with an attempt to extract money from
| bidder by promising to get him the con
/ tract for some public work if the latter
would pay him bonus for it. What he
/ had said YVES simply in q ocular way.
No attempt to obtain money from such
source was meant, and Alderman Barter
| YVES called GA as g witness to substsntiate
what Rely said He DID so, and the
Council in az informal way expressed it's
sense of the innocence of the alderman of
any such charge.